This just in from Sage Payments regarding a potential issue with users who have SPS automatically settle their credit card charges:

Automatic Settlement on Wednesday 2/10/16 May Not Have Processed

Sage has identified an issue that prevented automatic settlement from processing for some merchants on Wednesday 2/10/16 and the early morning of Thursday 2/11/16. Impacted users received an email with the subject “Sage Payment Solutions Credit Card Processing Batch Alert!”

If you received this email, no action is required. Your batch will settle as normally scheduled tonight and will include any unsettled items that were not settled last night.

You may also settle your batch manually by logging into Sage Virtual Terminal or Sage Exchange.

Have you ever received a cryptic “credit card declined” message while integrating Sage 100 with Sage Payment Solutions – and wonder what the numeric code means? Sage have published this handy list which offers a short explanation of each message which may appear in your Sage Exchange debug log.

Beginning with Sage 100 ERP 2013 the ability to use PC Charge from Verifone as a way to integrate your credit card merchant account of choice to your Sage 100 ERP has been discontinued. Instead Sage now offers integration to their own Sage Payment Services as the sole available option for integrated credit and other payment processing.

This has caused customers and partners to wonder whether third party options which re-enable credit card integrations to providers other than Sage Payments might be forthcoming.

At least one provider of such a solution had announced plans to upgrade their integration to work with Sage 100 ERP 2013.

Sage last night clarified their position on third party credit card integrations to Sage 100 ERP. In short they will not be allowed.

Starting with Sage 100 ERP Sage removed all credit card information from Sage 100 ERP and now stores it in the Sage Vault. From this location Sage can process integrated credit card transactions and does not need to subject each release of their Sage 100 ERP (including product updates) to an expensive PCI audit or review.

If you are using a credit card merchant other than Sage Payments and you wish to have integrated credit card processing in Sage 100 ERP 2013 then you will need to contact Sage Payments to obtain a merchant account through them.

I just stumbled across this literature from Sage which indicates their Sage Payments credit and debit card processing integrates to QuickBooks. We don’t have any direct experience with this integration though their literature claims that the integration will “seamlessly flow back into your accounting software”.